Dream Theater -- Images and Words: Authentic Guitar Tab [Paperback]

Theater Dream (Author), Dream Theater (Author, Recorder)

Book Description

Series: Authentic Guitar-Tab | Publication Date: January 1995

Dream Theater have helped redefine progressive for the '90s. This album-matching folio is ideal for any serious-minded musician ready for a creative challenge. Selections are: Another Day * Learning to Live * Metropolis - Part 1 (The Miracle and the Sleeper) * Pull Me Under * Surrounded * Take the Time and others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897240308
• ISBN-13: 978-0897240307
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book - Only For Advanced Students, January 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dream Theater -- Images and Words: Authentic Guitar Tab (Paperback)

I absolutely love Dream Theater, in any shape or form, and their books are one of the forms that I especially appreciate. Any Dream Theater book is a good buy, since they help to teach John Petrucci's technique and style to any budding young guitarists out there. I am very disappointed though, that there are many errors in the Images And Words: Guitar Tab book that other people may not have noticed. For example, the lyrics to the majority of the songs are shockingly incorrect, and there are a number (at least 3 or 4 that I can think of) places where the fret numbers have been put on the wrong string (which is easily seen by checking the standard notation), and some of the tab just doesn't quite sound right. Overall, however, I was pleased with this book since despite its downfalls, it helps to teach students a better way of playing, performing, and even writing/composing music. I give this book 4 stars, the errors counting for 2 stars lost, and the excellence of the band giving 1 star back. Buy this book, along with Awake and Falling Into Infinity!! By the way, if anyone has any queries about certain areas of this book they are stuck on, or needs assistance with some of JP's techniques, I can play the entire IAW, Awake, and FII books, and will gladly help.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dream Theater: "Images and Words", April 16, 2000

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nbftrek (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dream Theater -- Images and Words: Authentic Guitar Tab (Paperback)

An excellent tab book; easy to read and understand. Besides a few errors in the tab itself (fret numbers on the wrong string etc.) and some mistakes with the lyrics (its really quite funny how wrong they are in some places) I can't see anything wrong with this book. A must for anyone who just can't seem to get Metropolis, or any other song off this album to sound right on their own.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Guitar tab/notation of Dream Theater's second release, January 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dream Theater -- Images and Words: Authentic Guitar Tab (Paperback)

This tab book is a MUST have for any talented guitar player out there. Petrucci has a style that will humble the most learned of players, and you will learn some of the greatest licks and phrasings that I, personaly, have ever seen.